One-Letter Words A Dictionary 2

... vegetables, although breast milk and organ meats contain small amounts. Citrus fruits, tomatoes, pep - pers, strawberries, and cantaloupe are all excellent sources. —American Medical Association ... MARKS AND BRANDS 25 . n. A mark of shame for drunkards in Colonial America. Drunkards were forced to wear a great shame- letter D, “made of red cloth and set upon white, and to conti...

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... movie. X is a power of magnification, an axis on a graph, and a female chromosome. It is a multiplication operator, a letter of the alphabet, and an arbitrary point in time. X is a kiss at the ... herring, and oysters), lean meats, poultry, cheese, and eggs are also good sources. The only known plant sources are yeast, alfalfa, and two Japanese seaweeds—wakame and kombu. —Am...

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... urinary tracts and maintains healthy skin and hair. Beta carotene (also known as pro vitamin A) is converted to vitamin A by the body. Unlike retinol, beta carotene is an antioxi- dant a substance ... are yeast, alfalfa, and two Japanese seaweeds—wakame and kombu. —Ameri - can Medical Association 29 . n. A blood type. Genes for types A and B are dominant, and will always be ex...

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... —Joseph E. Rael, Tracks of Dancing Light: A Native American Approach to Understanding Your Name Like his father, and Grandfather Darwin as well, he tended to stammer, having special diffi culties ... fret. —Vaccaro Guitars 31. n. V aerial: an antenna shaped like a V. [The pink stretch limo had] gold- tint mirror glass, and a flying- V aerial on the back. Very cyberpunk. —Ian McDo...

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... Matt Brelje, Sheryl Burgstahler, John Burkardt, Tara Calishain, Alison Callahan, Jonathan and Hilary Caws- Elwit, Andrew Chorney, Steve Chrisomalis, Norris and Donna Clark, Ken Clinger, Allan ... Read a Book Z 22 8 Credits Cover design by Leander Reeves/www.kittycave.com Y Thank You Rana Bakhtiari, Firda Beka, Colleen Bell, John and Virginia Berland, Dan and Jan Bond, Wyman Brantl...

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... universal affi rmative A, the universal negative E, the par - ticular affi rmative I, and the particular negative O. 30. n. (mathematics) The natural number e, used as the base for natural logarithms ... The Panama Canal Review 26 . n. A Roman numeral for 25 0. 27 . n. Something arbitrarily designated E (e.g., a per- son, place, or other thing). 28 . n. A shoe width size (nar...

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... posterior (dorsal) horns are gray matter areas at the rear of each side of the H. . . . The lateral horns are small projections of gray matter at the sides of H. —Phillip E. Pack, Anatomy and Physiology ... (cooked); smaller amounts are found in whole- wheat prod - ucts, dairy products, fish, and tomatoes. —Ameri- can Medical Association And it doesn’t really matter, anyway, because we’ll...

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... lost jack a piece of card- sized paper on which they were going to draw a face both ways up, a club, a capital J, and even the jack’s name.” —Georges Perec, Life: A User’s Manual 2. (in ... universal negative E, the par - ticular affi rmative I, and the particular negative O. 37. n. A unit vector parallel to the x- axis. 38. n. Candlepower. The term candlepower is based...

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... BOULDERS 22 . n. In baseball, a strikeout. 23 . n. A mountain, as in K 2 (the second highest moun- tain on earth, located in the Karakoram range in Pakistan). SHAPES AND DESIGNS 24 . n. Something having ... which only zeros appear above the diagonal. L is a lower triangular matrix. —Marie A. Vitulli, A Brief History of Linear Algebra and Matrix Theory” 20 . n. (mechanic...

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... Johnny spun to face a bookcase of art criticism and wondered desperately if K came before or after N. The alphabet, a pillar, a solace and a certainty since kindergarten, had suddenly deserted ... Q and M, the Coca- Cola Company] churned out a bewildering set of statements and commercials aimed at disparaging Pepsi’s results, starting with the claim that people had a psycho...

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